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You already talked me into a 300 norma mag, don't get me wanting a 300 rum!
I really think I may try the 7 prc.... it will keep the rifle close to original, but modernized.
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Just know that the 7mm will wear the barrel a little faster than a 30cal, do to the large case diameter over bullet diameter..With all the new High BC 30 cal bullets out nowadays combined with the huge amount of other weights, I would do 30 cal over 7mm, simply because of the huge choice of bullets especially the high BC bullets available now in 30 cal, plus the added barrel life...Berger alone must make at least a dozen high BC bullets just from 200 grain(.616) to 245 grain(.846) versus 7mm having 9 if you drop all the way down to a 168(.618) to a max on the 195(.755) for the heaviest......But thats just my feelings on 30 over 7mil, I am sure which ever you do will work fine and make a good setup either way....
LOL, I went Rum when they first came out, simply because I wanted one rifle for everything..I had decided to go 30-378 Weatherby, but when I went to buy one, I just couldn't get over how expensive both the rifle and ammo was..counter guy said you should consider the brand new 300 rum, so he showed me one and that what I took home..big selling point at the time was Remington made 3 levels of ammo for the 300, 30-06 velocity for level 1, 300wm for level 2, and 300rum for level 3 and both the rifle and ammo was inexpensive........I've never used any of the lower levels but I have known guys who did, and its a neat trick to widen the use of one caliber to cover a bit more wider usage with over the counter factory ammo...I have always used level 3 factory ammo before I reloaded everything for it..Back then a case of factory ammo was pretty affordable so I stockpiled quite a pile of once fired brass, ever since I've hand loaded everything for it, weather fur bullets, big game hunting or LR stuff....It's easy to down load a cartridges performance, but hard to increase performance...so I use a big cartridge...works great for what I want/need of it...